Civil Rights Movement in 1960s Arkansas
Fifty years after the arrest of five Freedom Riders attempting to integrate interstate bus terminal facilities in Little…
Michael Simmons' introductory remarks in panel discussion on the Civil Rights Movement in Arkansas. The panel discussion is part of the symp… read more
Michael Simmons' introductory remarks in panel discussion on the Civil Rights Movement in Arkansas. The panel discussion is part of the symposium, “Sit-Ins, Freedom Rides, and Beyond: Direct Action and Civil Rights in 1960s Arkansas,” held at the Mosaic Templars Cultural Center in Little Rock, Arkansas on July 9, 2011. Introductory remarks of panelists Dwight Williams, Millard "Tex" Lowe, Howard Himmelbaum, and Laura Foner, and the subsequent discussion among panelists, follow in the full video. close
Fifty years after the arrest of five Freedom Riders attempting to integrate interstate bus terminal facilities in Little…
Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, 10 Japanese-American internment camps were set up in the United States. The two e…
President Bill Clinton honored the nine people who were the first black students at Little Rock Central High School on t…
Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus talked to Mike Wallace from the governor’s mansion in Little Rock during his standoff wit…